ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,340, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Performance testing for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Iain Whiteside (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing performance of a stack for planning ego vehicle trajectories in real or simulated driving scenarios applying driving rules to the scenario ground truth for evaluating the performance of the stack in the scenario, and providing output indicating whether each driving rule has been complied with; wherein the driving rules include at least one ODD-based response rule, wherein applying the ODD-based respons...